Good morning adventurers we are in London. Yes, we survived our 14-hour flight
We took the day off yesterday to recover a bit because it was pretty brutal. We're still feeling the jetlag though yeah
Nikita's over here. He's feeling it too. Yeah. I was feeling okay yesterday, but today I feel pretty bad
Yeah, but it is our last full day with Nikita before he leaves us
We're gonna do pretty much the best thing you can do in London around these times and go to a Christmas market
But first I think we're gonna start with an English breakfast start the day off properly
We've been staying at the Astor Museum Hostel in our private little hostel room, but they have you know communal rooms as well
But we're right ... It's a really nice location
It's right near Covent Garden, so we got easy access to the tube and all kinds of cool stuff shopping
Which we did the other day
Yeah, we did because we didn't have any winter gear so now we all have lovely winter ... Yeah
Nikita got some new stuff. I got some brand new stuff
Yeah, yeah nice and warm. They're quite a few of these Astor hostels around London
We've really enjoyed the kind of er, the vibe of it the couple of days that we've been here so far
So we highly encourage you guys to check it out when you make your trip to London
They're also very affordable. And one really cool thing is they have one pound breakfast and the proceeds go directly to charity
And I think we saw downstairs that since 2014 they've raised over a hundred thousand pounds just from the breakfast alone. Which is pretty cool.
That's insane. I think between all the hostels
Yeah, so even though we did already eat breakfast and now we're about to go eat a full English breakfast
But we also woke up really early today because of the jetlag so second breakfast
Guys this place has an epic pasta bar. You think you're gonna try it? Yeah I can't decide ...
They have so many delicious looking options.
These look really good
Nikita and I decided to start off with a cappuccino
That chocolate smells like cocoa yeah
I love the way that they make them here they put that cocoa on the top
they weren't really doing that much when were getting cappuccino in Asia
Parmesan cheese? Yes, please. lovely.
Full English has arrived. Looks pretty good for five pounds definitely the coffee was included
supposedly
By the way, we just realized I don't think we'd mention it, but Nikita used to live here
Yeah I lived here in London here like a couple years back in 2012 and I would actually get the us breakfast on my lunch break
From work like pretty much almost every day because I love this so much
So this is really incredible, bringing back a lot of memories
Really enjoying it
Guys we found our first Christmas tree. It looks so big. It's got the biggest ornaments I've ever seen in my life.
I'm digging all these Christmas vibes you guys it's so weird that we were just in Singapore and all of a sudden we're in London
Go yeah, 90 degrees and now it's like 40 literally just watching this
Zamboni
Mesmerized it's pretty cool
He's really good at it.
Check out these little domes that we found. That's pretty sweet. Do you think it's ah, there's like it's heated in there
It must be, I bet.
We're in this graffiti tunnel now which we actually came through last time we were in London, I think
Yeah, we came with, er, one of our subscribers, Dan.
But this tunnel is really cool because people are free to just come here and add their own art to the wall
So when you come here, you'll see a bunch of people spray painting around
It's kind of like that graffiti park that we've went to a few times in Austin yeah, very cool
Some of the graffiti is pretty impressive
Woah, he's actually coming to me
Hey buddy, what are you doing? Oh? He's crawling on my. Yeah. He's crawling on me. Holy cow. Well, I wasn't expecting that
That terrified me. I didn't see that coming
Dude, he's such a little cutie
That was awesome.
We started a trend
We've just been spending the last hour or two at the National Theatre, which is right near the river here in London
We came here last time we were here because they have free Wi-Fi that's super fast. They even have
a bar in there. Yeah, they have an espresso bar and a regular bar and a really cool seating
It's really neat even though it looks like a big gray blob on the outside
Yeah, it's a really cool inside, but they put all these lights on there. I just noticed that's pretty cool nice
sweet
But we've met up with our friend Jay who's hanging with Nikita up there. We're going to head to the Christmas market
That's just down here. They should have all kinds of delicious goodies for us to try
We found a tiny little stall that was selling some mulled wine and a bunch of other delicious looking Christmasy drinks
So I got the mulled wine
I've heard about mulled wine on everyone else's last year on everyone else's like christmas market videos
But I had no idea what it was
I honestly thought it was mold wine like M.O.L.D but it's M.U.L.L.E.D, but
I guess it's just warm wine with some spices in it, and there's I think that's a slice of an orange
That's floating around in there
It's got a very
Citrusy aroma to it. It's like sangria
Actually now that I'm seeing it in real life, maybe that's gonna be gross we'll see
That's dang good. It's good? Yeah, it's all like spicy cinnamon-ee, citrus with the orange in it
That's real good. It's nice and warm too. Let's see what this mulled wine's all about
Oh. It's much better than I thought.
It's really tasty. It's so weird to me, but that's delicious and it's nice and cold out here too. So this is perfect. Yes.
I ... you wanna try that ... I got a hot toddy, though, which we've had before, but what is it rum and tea black tea and?
Lemon? Was it whisky or rum?
Might have been whisky. It's alcohol, and that's the important thing kids
You got these guys
You guys looking for illegal goods? What did you end up getting? This dry dry apple cider
Rekor-daling
Rekorderlig
Yeah, it looks like Mountain Dew. Well, try it's pretty damn ... Yeah? It's cold, but delicious. It's dry apple ...
So this is dry apple cider. It's really clear looking and very bubbly
That's pretty good. The problem with cider is its it can be a little too sweet for me, but this isn't too sweet
What do you think yeah? I think it's pretty good
Yeah I think because it's dry apple, it's a lot less sugary. Yeah, which I really like
Yeah, I agree like a lot of the ciders are way too sweet, but this is quite nice and refreshing
It got cold out there you guys
We're back at the hostel
We ended up just
Exploring the city a little bit
Grabbing a pint of some Guinness. It was delicious
We hated Weatherspoon's. If you haven't been to Weatherspoon's you should check it out because it's rare cheap
They got pretty interesting locations. Yeah, they're all over the place yeah, they're in like really cool old buildings and stuff, but yes
Maybe not the highest quality stuff, but definitely
Cheap pints and affordable meals and a lot of their meals come with a drink. That's true mm-hmm
Well this has made us very
Excited for upcoming Christmas markets turns out we are going to go up to York and then down to Bath and see there ...
Turns out we just finalized this. Yeah, we just did we're going there on Sunday
Which is in like three days or four days or something like that but it'll be fine, so we can't wait
We're really feeling the jet lag now though. It's hittin' me. Nikita's been feeling kind of crappy all day
I think I mentioned that already, but I was like yeah, I'm feeling fine and all of a sudden I was like whoa
Yeah, I think having a couple of beers ...like at first we were like yeah, and then it just really hit us and we're like no this is bad
So I think we're gonna go straight to bed now
Goodnight adventurers.
We'll see on the road